On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 at  8:02:43 -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote:
> Tomasz Papszun wrote:
> >On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 at 16:36:14 +0100, Cali Federico wrote:
> > [...]
> >>-- is it possible, after a virus detection, to forwarding the e-mail
> >
> >to the original destination without the attachment ?
> >
> >Please don't. Almost every malware nowadays uses false sender address.
> >Even worse: the address can exist but belongs to innocent person.
> 
> He's talking about completing a cleaned delivery to the recipient, not back 
> the originator. 

Sorry, you're right. I've read too quickly.
Still, usefulness of such notifications is very debatable.

> That, I think, is the job of the milter or what ever 
> invokes the AV process on his system.

That's right.

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